[extropy-chat] Rocket Diamonds

[Hara Ra]

Here is an excellent page with MUCH better pictures:

http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aerojava/rocket3.htm


BTW these patterns also are seen in rocket exhausts.

>I had a professor in college who worked on the problem
>of Prandtl-Meyer flow, which is used to explain why
>the exhaust plumes of jet engines display the characteristic
>diamond patterns when the pilot gets hard on the gas:
>spike
>
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